Commit 38c994b8 authored by Daniel Stenberg's avatar Daniel Stenberg
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33. Doing multi-pass HTTP authentication on a non-default port does not work. 

  This happens because the multi-pass code abuses the redirect following code
  for doing multiple requests, and when we following redirects to an absolute
  URL we must use the newly specified port and not the one specified in the
  original URL. A proper fix to this would need to separate the negotiation
  "redirect" from an actual redirect.
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33. Doing multi-pass HTTP authentication on a non-default port does not work.

  This happens because the multi-pass code abuses the redirect following code

  for doing multiple requests, and when we following redirects to an absolute

  URL we must use the newly specified port and not the one specified in the

  original URL. A proper fix to this would need to separate the negotiation

  "redirect" from an actual redirect.



32. (At least on Windows) If libcurl is built with c-ares and there's no DNS

  server configured in the system, the ares_init() call fails and thus

  curl_easy_init() fails as well. This causes weird effects for people who use